LIVE: White House briefing as Trump's crackdown on universities escalates

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a briefing after the Trump administration announced it was freezing $2.3 billion in federal funding to Harvard, America's oldest university. The announcement came hours after the school rejected numerous demands from the administration that it said would cede control of the institution to a conservative government that portrays universities as dangerously leftist.

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Post from Reuters on April 15, 2025